Highschool of the Dead fans are aghast at the news that the much anticipated restart of the manga is actually just a one-off “special publication,” with the time-frame for actual resumption “undetermined.”

With unusual candour for a top mangaka, on the eve of the release of the first animated Dragon Ball movie in over a decade series creator Akira Toriyama has taken some time out to bash the notoriously bad Hollywood adaptation he authorised.

Standard-issue Japanese mindset: this thing I've allowed to exist is shit, but I'm going to support it in the hopes that it isn't entirely shit.
It's out? It's still shit? And people agree that it's shit?
I'm... More

Anonymous commented on April 7, 2013 05:58

That Screwattack thing was bias against Goku on several notes. I wont go too serious but I saw it and given I know plenty about both of them I can say that they just did... More

One Piece mangaka Eiichiro Oda’s “sudden illness” recently resulted in One Piece abruptly disappearing from the latest Weekly Shonen Jump – an absence they reassure readers will last only a week, although neither fans nor the industry will be happy to be reminded the world’s best selling mangaka is only mortal.

The creator of the manga adapted into blockbuster bathing movie Thermae Romae has spoken of her outrage at learning that of the movie’s 6 billion yen gross she would only be receiving a paltry 1 million yen.

Seiyuu otaku have been celebrating those seiyuu who are good with their hands as well as their mouths – and it looks as if a number of them may well be artistically talented enough to pursue careers as illustrators or mangaka in addition to voice work, as is plainly evident when their work is showcased:

To Love-Ru author Yabuki Kentaro and top ero-doujinshika Ishikei, both masters of the art of ero-manga, have apparently become friends and seem to have been discussing “high level ero-works” together, much to the excitement of fans.

The revelation that Saki mangaka Ritsu Kobayashi lives a “total hikikomori” lifestyle and has never even met most of the assistants, editors and animators responsible for realising the mahjong nopan empire Saki has become has come as a surprise to many.

The debut of Shonen Jump’s new food manga Shokugeki no Soma, illustrated by noted ero-mangaka Tosh (aka Shun Saeki), is being hailed as the sexiest manga to debut in Jump for some time, and has wasted no time filling its pages with tentacles and scantily clad girls…

If possible, can we also get the onanism recordings of females again? Needless to say, that was hot.... More

Gr8Sk8r commented on October 27, 2012 08:01

My favourite artist is Oh!Great, because he is able to combine realism with great design, what does it for me is attention to detail. Where Hiroaki Samura's sword is just a monotone piece of metal... More